Care to Die by Tana Collins

Author:Tana Collins [Collins, Tana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloodhound Books

Carruthers left the apartment and hailed a taxi in the street. After an agonisingly dark morning it was now light and the sky was streaked with different hues of blue. By the time he got back to his hotel it was well past lunchtime and his stomach was growling. He found the cafe Paul was talking about at the end of his street. Its inviting lights indicated it was still serving lunch, so Carruthers entered and took a seat facing the window. He looked at the menu. He couldn’t quite stomach the flatbread with sheep’s head jelly, turnip and salad so he instead he ordered rye bread with eggs and herring and a coffee. As he waited for his lunch he took out his notebook and started to make notes. He decided that later he would head back to his hotel room and check Paul’s alibi.

Carruthers didn’t doubt for a minute the truth of Paul’s admission that he had been abused by his own father, but this in itself gave the man a strong motive for murder. If, on the other hand, his alibi checked out, and he hadn’t murdered his father, then who had? His money was on the killer being one of the many boys who’d been abused. How many other victims were out there? How many knew where Ruiridh Fraser had lived? Most crucially, why had the murderer waited forty years to commit the murders? What had been the trigger?

It just seemed the most likely scenario that a former victim would be the murderer. But if that was the case where did Angus Dawson fit in? If he had been about to expose the paedophile ring why was he killed? Surely not by a child abuse victim. Carruthers was starting to form an idea in his head and it wasn’t one that he very much liked. Could it be possible that there were two murderers out there? Two murderers whose lives were connected in some way but who had very different motives. The first had killed the two men but then there was a second, one who had bashed Andie and killed Dawson?’

His thoughts turned to the Hunters. Fletcher was most probably right. Perhaps the old man’s attention had turned to Jordan Hunter. That would certainly account for the boy calling him a paedo. But Jordan had an alibi for the night Fraser was murdered. He had been away on a school trip to France. Where had his father been that night, Carruthers wondered? Away on one of his many business trips? How easy would it have been for him to slip back and murder his next-door neighbour? They had noticed how defensive he’d been of the boy. It had even been recorded in the original notes taken by Brown and Harris.

Carruthers was starting to feel uncomfortable. He was also starting to kick himself that he’d forgotten to ask Paul for a list of the names of any of the boys his father had brought back to the house.

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